Famous Quotes About Parents

• "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness."  - Oscar Wilde
• "If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.'' - Unknown
• "Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring." - Unknown
• "We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves" - Henry Ward Beecher
• "The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one." - John Dryden
• "If I had my child to raise over again, I'd build self-esteem first and the house later, I'd finger paint more and point the finger less, I would do less correcting and more connecting, I'd take my eyes off my watch and watch with my eyes, I would care to know less and know to care more, I'd take more hikes and fly more kites, I'd stop playing serious and seriously play, I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars, I'd do more hugging and less tugging, I'd see the oak tree in the acorn more often, I would be firm less often and affirm much more, I'd model less about the love of power, And more about the power of love." - Diane Loomans
• "Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in a crisis and need something." - Chuck Palahniuk
• "Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going." - Phyllis Diller
• "A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease." - Elizabeth Gaskell
• "From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?"  - Juvenal
• "He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief." - Jewish Proverb
• "I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up." - Russell Bishop
• "The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed." - Unknown
• "There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you." - Peter de Vries
• "The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children." - Clarence S. Darrow
• "It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do." - Simone de Beauvoir